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App logo with Text, "Clew: Navigation App Review"

Clew: Navigation App Review

Retrace your steps with Clew!
How I use my phone for Orientation and Mobility. www.veroniiiica.com

How I Use My Phone for Orientation and Mobility

Apps and techniques I use on my phone to travel independently with a blindness cane on my college campus and beyond.
Touring Colleges with Virtual Reality.www.veroniiiica.com

Touring Colleges with Virtual Reality

Using the YouVisit platform to tour colleges in virtual reality. Compatible with screen readers and magnification.
Tips for Be My Eyes Volunteer from a Vision Impaired User. www.veroniiiica.com

Tips for Be My Eyes Volunteers from a Vision Impaired User

How to be a Be My Eyes volunteer and effectively help people with vision loss.
Be My Eyes App Review. www.veroniiiica.com

Be My Eyes App Review

How I use the Be My Eyes App with fluctuating vision.
Airaport - How I use Aira at the airport.

Airaport - How I Use Aira at the Airport

How Aira helps me independently navigate the airport and TSA with vision impairment.
Photo of Esteban, a high school student, walking INSIGHT hallways holding a phone running BlindSquare.

Bringing Freedom Indoors

A tech savvy high school student with a vision impairment is leading the way!
Incorporating Blindness canes into Halloween Costumes. www.veroniiiica.com

Incorporating Blindness Canes into Halloween Costumes

Trick or Treat! Ten DIY inexpensive Halloween costumes for blindness cane users that incorporate the cane.
Image of music notes and long cane with text, "Cane Songs".

Cane Songs

Looking for a way to help motivate students to use great cane skills?
Blindfold Games logo and text, "Blindfold Games www.BlindfoldGames.org"

Introduction to Blindfold Games: Video

Which Blindfold game is your favorite?
Colorful 3D printed tactile maps: each room is a separate tile that is placed together like a puzzle to show the entire building

Tactile 3D printed classroom maps

The University of South Florida is creating tactile classroom maps for students with visual impairments!
Image of Walking man with a cane stick figure and text, "Getting Ready for College: O&M Skills"

Get Ready for College: O&M Skills

Is your student MOBILITY READY to attend college?
Woman walking with dog on woodland path; second woman with seated dog waiting off the path. Title below the photo.

BlindSquare Integration for Future Dog Guide User

O&M lesson ideas to prepare for traveling with a dog.
Screenshot of You Doodle app showing annotated map image. Map has colored and labeled the Library, Gym and Room 110 and routes.

Adapting a Floor Plan Using You Doodle App

This annotation app enables you to ERASE unwanted items!
Compass logo and text, "Review of Compass App"

Mobile App Review: Compass, by Apple Inc.

Learn how to use the Compass app while running VoiceOver!
Two kids reaching behind pipes searching for geocached treasure and text, "Geocaching O&M Lesson".

Treasure Hunts and Geocaching: O&M lessons

Turn your O&M lesson into a Treasure Hunt! (Joanne Kennedy)
Image with 'N' on the compass app and drawing of black square on Whiteboard app with text, 'Using the Compass and Whiteboard app

Whiteboard and Compass App: O&M Lesson

Teaching "mental mapping" skills to a young student with albinism.
Photo of a student's feet and cane traveling on a school sidewalk.

O&M Lesson: Teaching Distance Estimates using BlindSquare

Does your student really understand measurement terms such as feet?
screenshot of BlindSquare home screen with the Tool bar, my places, and shared places.

O&M Lesson Using BlindSquare with VoiceOver

Here is an O&M lesson to help you get started with BlindSquare using VoiceOver.
Black line drawing of a square house with text, "Welcome to Wyatt's House by Stephanie Bissonette."

Welcome to Wyatt's House: O&M lesson

Using Pictello, an iPad, the P.I.A.F. and braille to create an O&M book for a 2 year old child who is totally blind child.

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